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The Systems Engineering Society of Australia (SESA) is a Technical Society of Engineers Australia and the Australian affiliated chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Technical Societies provides a forum for mutual technical development, networking, expanding and sharing knowledge with like-minded professionals. Members of Technical Societies provide expert opinion on a broad range of issues and have a capacity to exert considerable influence about professional practice in a changing world market.

Speaker: : Pamela Melroy, current Director of Space Strategy at Nova Systems, retired test pilot for the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut to present on Systems Engineering Applied to Space Policy, Director of Space Strategy at Nova Systems, Retired Test Pilot for the United States Air Force, Former NASA Astronaut

This is an interesting time in the space sector in Australia and we are thrilled to hear Pamela’s views on the future of the Space Industry and the role Systems Engineering plays. tired United States Air Force test pilot and a former NASA astronaut. She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120 before leaving the agency in August 2009. After leaving NASA, she has held a variety of executive positions with industry and government to include Lockheed Martin, the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, and the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She now serves as Director of Space Strategy for Nova Systems.